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We investigate the effect of a dispersed bubble phase on forced homogeneous and isotropic turbulence using high-resolution high-performance simulations based on the lattice Boltzmann method. While the classical Kolmogorov energy cascade is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-09-29 Andrea Montessori , Marco Lauricella , Aritra Mukherjee , Luca Brandt

We investigate the transient bubbles that spontaneously appear in a simple liquid using molecular simulations. The objective is to deduce the free-energy of formation of the bubbles $W(s)$ from the bubble size distribution $p(s)$ through…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-05-06 J. Puibasset

Starting from the classical formulation of the weak turbulence theory in a density stratified fluid, we derive a simplified version of the kinetic equation of internal gravity wave turbulence. This equation allows us to uncover scaling laws…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-02-01 Nicolas Lanchon , Pierre-Philippe Cortet

Turbulence in stratified and rotating turbulent flows is characterized by an interplay between waves and eddies, resulting in continuous exchanges between potential and kinetic energy. Here, we study how these processes affect the turbulent…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-07-11 Sebastian Gallon , Alessandro Sozza , Fabio Feraco , Raffaele Marino , Alain Pumir

Bubbles play an important role in the transport of chemicals and nutrients in many natural and industrial flows. Their dispersion is crucial to understand the mixing processes in these flows. Here we report on the dispersion of millimetric…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-08-08 Varghese Mathai , Sander G. Huisman , Chao Sun , Detlef Lohse , Mickaël Bourgoin

The present study focuses on direct numerical simulations of breaking waves generated by a wave plate at constant water depths. The aim is to quantify the dynamics and kinematics in the breaking process, together with the air entrainment…

Micro-bubbles are of significant interest due to the long-living signature they leave behind naval ships. In order to numerically model and predict these bubbles in naval applications, subgrid-scale models are required because of the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-11-30 Shahab Mirjalili , Wai Hong Ronald Chan , Ali Mani

The question of how nonlinear interactions redistribute the energy of fluctuations across available degrees of freedom is of fundamental importance in the study of turbulence and transport in magnetized weakly collisional plasmas, ranging…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 G. G. Plunk , T. Tatsuno

Here the fluctuation properties of acoustic localization in bubbly water is explored. We show that the strong localization can occur in such a system for a certain frequency range and sufficient filling fractions of air-bubbles. Two…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Chao-Hsien Kuo , Ken Kang-Hsin Wang , Zhen Ye

When very small particles are suspended in a fluid in motion, they tend to follow the flow. How such tracer particles are mixed, transported, and dispersed by turbulent flow has been successfully described by statistical models. Heavy…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-12-21 J. Bec , K. Gustavsson , B. Mehlig

The interaction between near-wall turbulence and wall curvature is described for the incompressible flow in a plane channel with a small concave-convex-concave bump on the bottom wall, with height comparable to the wall-normal location of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-05-13 Davide Selvatici , Maurizio Quadrio , Alessandro Chiarini

Recent increases in computing power have enabled the numerical simulation of many complex flow problems that are of practical and strategic interest for naval applications. A noticeable area of advancement is the computation of turbulent,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-11-08 Qiang Gao , Grant B. Deane , Saswata Basak , Umberto Bitencourt , Lian Shen

Rotating turbulence is ubiquitous in nature. Previous works suggest that such turbulence could be described as an ensemble of interacting inertial waves across a wide range of length scales. For turbulence in macroscopic quantum…

Direct numerical simulations are utilised to investigate mass transfer processes at gas-evolving electrodes that experience successive formation and detachment of bubbles. The gas-liquid interface is modeled employing an Immersed Boundary…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-10-23 Farzan Sepahi , Roberto Verzicco , Detlef Lohse , Dominik Krug

This two-part review summarizes interstellar turbulence and its implications. The first part begins with diagnostics and energy sources. Turbulence theory is considered in detail, including the basic fluid equations, solenoidal and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Bruce G. Elmegreen , John Scalo

Wave localization is a ubiquitous phenomenon. It refers to situations that transmitted waves in scattering media are trapped in space and remain confined in the vicinity of the initial site until dissipated. Here we report a phase…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-31 Zhen Ye , Haoran Hsu

Breakup of drop/bubble can be viewed as a result of fundamental force balance when the disruptive force is greater than the restorative force. A disruptive force acting on the drop/bubble tries to deform it, whereas a restorative force…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-01-24 Suhas Jain S

Chaotic flows drive mixing and efficient transport in fluids, as well as the associated beautiful complex patterns familiar to us from our every day life experience. Generating such flows at small scales where viscosity takes over is highly…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2017-10-09 Eldad Afik , Victor Steinberg

The transient ejection due to a bubble bursting at the interface of a liquid with a gas environment is here described using a dynamical scaling analysis along the process. We show here that the ejection of a liquid microjet requires the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-03-23 Alfonso M. Ganan-Calvo , Jose M. Lopez-Herrera

The dynamics of particle transport under the influence of localised high energy anomalies (explosions) is a complicated phenomena dependent on many physical parameters of both the particle and the medium it resides in. Here we present a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-09-02 Timothy C. DuBois , Milan Jamriska , Alex Skvortsov